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Filmic Fabric of a People
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Still makes the rest of us look academic. - Jackson Pollock
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Has no time for white BS
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
A colorful feast
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It’s all about perspective
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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Just resting my eyes
Wow mom I saw a cow mom and it said moo
Painting and donors both make a big splash
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Jarring obsession
Literal food porn
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Thunderbird meets Bear
Bleeding red, white, and blue
I'll have what she's having
Drum roll!
A Horrifying History
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
No boys allowed
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
Praying to have faith
Falling for the same gal
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
A tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Careful, might make you howl!
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
